Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not Oversharing
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#2Queue the report showing that users who review their privacy/sharing settings on Facebook end up sharing more, not less...
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#3Am I the only one who sees double meaning in using a "dinosaur" to help remind people about "privacy"? Or maybe I'm just reading too far into it.
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#4Am I the only one who sees double meaning in using a "dinosaur" to help remind people about "privacy"? Or maybe I'm just reading too far into it.
Little bit, yes. It is a cute thing. That can be all it is. They did not need to do this at all. It is unlikely that they are trying to insert subliminal negative messages at cross purposes to the dialog box.
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#5So next gen clippy?
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#6Am I the only one who sees double meaning in using a "dinosaur" to help remind people about "privacy"? Or maybe I'm just reading too far into it.
I wonder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_(mascot)
(For a minute I thought it was a Firefox dinosaur, in which case the derivation would have been far more obvious.)
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#7Am I the only one who sees double meaning in using a "dinosaur" to help remind people about "privacy"? Or maybe I'm just reading too far into it.
Little bit, yes. It is a cute thing. That can be all it is. They did not need to do this at all. It is unlikely that they are trying to insert subliminal negative messages at cross purposes to the dialog box.
Gonna have to disagree with you there.
Institutions put out messages and public relations at odds with their own interests all the time. It's never very strongly at odds with the institutional interest of course. Just a sop put forward which gets back as much in extra public credulity as much as it costs in development, in opportunity cost to the raw, core profit machine, and in the seemingly cross-purposed promotion.
In this case, one is better off presuming that Marky Mark "My Users Are Dumb Fucks" Zucker-Borg's company does indeed consider privacy a thing extinct and is happier if the public thinks of it that way too, until we start to see an overwhelming trend in the other direction. Until then, the trend is clearly that Facebook wants to cultivate the "privacy + dinosaur = go together" association in the public's mind, and they even callowly do it right alongside a pseudo "we CARE that you should be able to protect your privacy".
The "caring" is simply out of a wish to create a legally plausible image of taking reasonable steps to give dumbfucks the opportunity to not have their privacy butchered wholesale, so that they can butcher privacy wholesale.
Bonus 1: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wofs8ZpcXlM&t=78s > Subliminal Messages Caught Red-Handed
Bonus 2: > http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/20698/privacy-postmor... > "Privacy: A Post-Mortem" by Steven Rambam. (Search for it on YouTube as well if desired.)
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#8Facebook does not really care who you share your posts with. It does care that you stay on Facebook so that it can charge Coke and Nike and other big brands huge dollars to put their posts into your timeline. So, making you feel a little better about Facebook security could mean more money on their bottom line.
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#9> it’s in Facebook’s interest to get us all to overshare
Could that absurd legend get buried already? It’s their obvious, direct commercial interest to keep your private information reserved for themselves, to improve proprietary targeting. The over-sharing might be Zuckerberg’s openness ideology against his company commercial interest.
> just imagine how worthless Yelp would be if a majority of its users turned their reviews to “private” or “friends-only.”
Well, I don't know about Yelp, but my Facebook NewsFeed has mainly friends’ updates. There are some advertising, but I doubt the advertisers feel their privacy violated by those.
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#10So next gen clippy?
You mean 65-millions-ago gen?